{"product_id":"living-and-dying-in-sao-paulo-immigrants-health-and-the-built-environment-in-brazil-paperback","title":"Living and Dying in São Paulo: Immigrants, Health, and the Built Environment in Brazil - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJeffrey Lesser\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is a saying in Brazil: \"Mosquitoes are democratic: they bite the rich and the poor alike.\" Why then is bad health---from violence to respiratory disease, from malaria to dengue---dispersed unevenly across different social and national groups? In \u003ci\u003eLiving and Dying in São Paulo\u003c\/i\u003e, Jeffrey Lesser focuses on the Bom Retiro neighborhood to explore such questions by examining the competing visions of well-being in Brazil among racialized immigrants and policymakers and health officials. He analyzes the fraught relationship between Bom Retiro residents and the state and health care agencies that have overseen community sanitation efforts since the mid-nineteenth century, drawing out the connected systems of the built environment, public health laws and practices, and citizenship. Lesser employs the concept of \"residues\" to outline how continuing historical material, legislative, and social legacies structure contemporary daily life and health outcomes in the neighborhood. In so doing, Lesser creates a dialogue between the past and the present, showing how the relationship between culture and disease is both layered and interconnected.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJeffrey Lesser is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of History at Emory University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eA Discontented Diaspora: Japanese Brazilians and the Meanings of Ethnic Militancy, 1960-1980\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNegotiating National Identity: Immigrants, Minorities, and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil\u003c\/i\u003e, both published by Duke University Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.72 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 15, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52241482907922,"sku":"9781478030980","price":48.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0941\/2211\/5346\/files\/EZABVjXMUR9781478030980.webp?v=1777899648","url":"https:\/\/ckbookstore.net\/products\/living-and-dying-in-sao-paulo-immigrants-health-and-the-built-environment-in-brazil-paperback","provider":"CK BOOKSTORE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}